Sacramento County Biographies
HIRAM WISER
Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton
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DRY CREEK TOWNSHIP.
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Post Office, Galt; lives two miles from that town and twenty-seven
and a half miles from Sacramento; was born in Pennsylvania, in 1824; removed to
Illinois in 1836, and lived there until 1858, engaged in farming; he moved to
Kansas in that year, and leaving his family there, he spent about two years in
the Rocky Mountains; he left Kansas in 1861 and went to Iowa, where he followed
farming until 1863; he then came to California; owns three hundred and
fifty-five acres of land, worth, with improvements, about 25,000. The house Mr.
Wiser lives in was built in Maine and shipped here by way of the Horn. He was
married in 1853, to Miss Delia Gray, a native of Ohio; they have five children a
son and four daughters.
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by
Thompson & West.